Re: LYNX-DEV Character encoding (was: RFW: search service)

[Foteos Macrides]

Klaus Weide <address@hidden> wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Nov 1996, Drazen Kacar wrote:
>
>> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 17:28:59 +0100 (MET)
>> From: Drazen Kacar <address@hidden>
>> Reply-To: address@hidden
>> To: address@hidden
>> Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV RFW: search service
>> 
>> Klaus Weide wrote:
>> > On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Drazen Kacar wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Klaus Weide wrote:
>> > > > lotsa minus if a page contains any &#nnn; for 128 <= nnn < 160.
>> > > >       times three if they also specify a charset :)
>> > > 
>> > > If you specify charset, you can have printable characters in that range.
>> > 
>> > Yes, as the bytes (assuming we are talking about an 8bit charset), but
>> > never SGML encoded like &#151; etc.  Those numbers *always* refer to
>> > iso-8859-1 or its superset (ISO 10646).
>> 
>> OK, I'm the ignorant one here. Where does it say so? Directing me to HTML 2.0
>> RFC is quite good...
>
>Look at the file .../test/iso8859-1.html from the Lynx distribution.
>Follow the link at the top to a more recent version[*].
>
>You will find enough links to keep you reading for a while. 
>I especially recommend the link to Alan Flavell's page.

        Also try the "IETF HTML i18n" link in the Lynx v2.6 online 'h'elp.

        "i18n" is now the WWW acronym for "internationalization" ('i'
and 'n' with 18 letters in between).

                                Fote

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